Author: Phillips, Caryl

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 16 January 2025 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 240 pages
216 x 135 | 0g

The powerful and evocative story of a young West Indian man's search for home in 1960s London - by the multi-award-winning author dubbed 'one of the literary giants of our time' (New York Times)'A masterful stylist writing at the top of his powers' Anthony JosephIn the early Sixties, Victor ¡®Lucky¡¯ Johnson arrives in London from St Kitts, with dreams of becoming a journalist. Lucky soon finds work first at an Irish pub in Notting Hill ¨C then as a rent collector for an unscrupulous slum landlord Peter Feldman.

Shadowing Lucky from his early struggles in London to the present day, Caryl Phillips paints a striking portrait of a flawed but vividly alive man grappling with the lifelong disillusionments of exile ¨C and the uniquely complicated identity of the Windrush generation.

Another Man in the Street is an unforgettable story of loss, displacement, belonging, and the triumph of Black resilience - epic in scope and yet profoundly intimate; and a radical and timely portrait of immigrant London.

Praise for Caryl Phillips¡®One of Britain's pre-eminent writers¡¯ Guardian¡®One of the literary giants of our time¡¯ New York Times¡®Phillips is a linguistic and cultural virtuoso¡¯ The Times